Oracle's Internet of Things platform | Shivanshu Upadhyay
Unless you've been hiding under a rock you've likely heard about the Internet of Things. This post by Shivanshu Upadhyay includes links to a couple of upcoming Oracle Webcasts on the Internet of Things, and also includes lists of relevant sessions coming up at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne in San Francisco.

Creating a Custom OVD Plugin | Paulo Pereira
This post by FMW solution architect Paulo Pereira shows you "how to develop a custom OVD plug-in that reads a LDAP Object’s attribute value, splits the value in two, using a delimiter, and creates two new attributes with values assigned from the split operation."

Monday Nov 12, 2012

OAM/OVD JVM Tuning | @FusionSecExpert
Vinay from the Oracle Fusion Middleware Architecture Group (the very prolific A-Team) shares a process for analyzing and improving performance in Oracle Virtual Directory and Oracle Access Manager.

Exploring Lambda Expressions for the Java Language and the JVM | Java Magazine
In the latest //Java/Architect column in Java Magazine, Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Trisha Gee explain how, "although Lambda expressions might seem unfamiliar to begin with, they're quite easy to pick up, and mastering them will be vital for writing applications that can take full advantage of modern multicore CPUs."

Solving Big Problems in Our 21st Century Information Society | Irving Wladawsky-Berger
"I believe that the kind of extensive collaboration between the private sector, academia and government represented by the Internet revolution will be the way we will generally tackle big problems in the 21st century. Just as with the Internet, governments have a major role to play as the catalyst for many of the big projects that the private sector will then take forward and exploit. The need for high bandwidth, robust national broadband infrastructures is but one such example." — Irving Wladawsky-Berger

ADF Mobile Custom Javasciprt – iFrame Injection | John Brunswick
The ADF Mobile Framework provides a range of out of the box components to add within your AMX pages, according to John Brunswick. But what happens when "an out of the box component does not directly fulfill your development need? What options are available to extend your application interface?" John has an answer.

Architects Matter: Making sense of the people who make sense of enterprise IT
Why do architects matter? Oracle Enterprise Architect Eric Stephens suggests that you ask yourself this question the next time you take the elevator to the Oracle offices on the 45th floor of the Willis Tower in Chicago, Illinois (or any other skyscraper, for that matter). If you had to take the stairs to get to those offices, who would you blame? "You get the picture," he says. "Architecture is essential for any necessarily complex structure, be it a building or an enterprise." (Read the article...)

Updated Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) Class | Gary Barg
Oracle SOA Team blogger Gary Barg has news for those interested in a skills upgrade. This updated Oracle University course "explains how to use Oracle BAM to monitor enterprise business activities across an enterprise in real time. You can measure your key performance indicators (KPIs), determine whether you are meeting service-level agreements (SLAs), and take corrective action in real time."

Thought for the Day

"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong."

Oracle BPM enable BAM | Peter Paul van de Beek
"BAM enables you to make decisions based on real-time information gathered from your running processes," says Peter Paul van de Beek. "With BPMN processes you can use the standard Business Indicators that the BPM Suite offers you and use them to with BAM without much extra effort."

ORCLville: Some Basic BI Thoughts
"If we'd stop to consider what business intelligence really is, many of us might grow a different perspective about how we implement enterprise apps," says Oracle ACE Director Floyd Teter. "What if we implemented with an eye to what kind of information we'd like to get from our enterprise apps?"

Thought for the Day

"The structure of a software system will reflect the communication structure of the team that built it"

Tuesday Jul 10, 2012

Free Event Today: Virtual Developer Day: Oracle Fusion Development
This free event—another in the ongoing series of OTN Virtual Developer Days—focuses on Oracle Fusion development, and features three session tracks plus hands-on labs. Agenda and session abstracts are available now so you can be ready for the live event when it kicks off today, July 10, 9am to 1pm PST / 12pm to 4pm EST / 1pm to 5pm BRT.

Podcast: The Role of the Cloud Architect - Part 1/3
In part one of this three-part conversation, cloud architects Ron Batra (AT&T) and James Baty (Oracle) talk about how cloud computing is driving the supply-chaining of IT and the "democratization of the activity of architecture."

Cloud computing moves from fad to foundation | David Linthicum
"When enterprises make cloud computing work, they view the application of the technology as a trade secret of sorts, so there are no press releases or white papers," says David Linthicum. "Indeed, if you see one presentation around a successful cloud computing case study, you can bet you're not hearing about 100 more."

BAM design pointers | Kavitha Srinivasan
"When using EMS (Enterprise Message Source) as a BAM feed, the best practice is to use one EMS to write to one Data Object," says Oracle Fusion Middleware A-Team blogger Kavitha Srinivasan. "There is a possibility of collisions and duplicates when multiple EMS write to the same row of a DO at the same time."